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the saving mystery, he is worthy to be given it; God accepts him, for the Lord commands: "He who eats My body and drinks My blood, he shall dwell in Me, and I in him, and he shall not see death forever."
Saint Gregory says: He who sins most grievously, who on the day of judgment will shame the man before God, and these thirty-one sins likely referring to a specific list or classification of grave sins are most grievous, which he does not confess, and it is a small thing, that thing goes with the man and shames him. Saint Gregory says: How are they cleansed through confession and repentance and tears, for how are the transgressions that are not remembered before God wiped away? The angel says: As wax melts from fire, or darkness flees from light, or dust that the storm blows away; all sins are thus wiped away by fervent repentance.
Saint Gregory says: If one commits a sin and confesses, and then commits it again and does not repent, is there forgiveness? The angel says: As many times as you stand up i.e., fall and rise again, that many times you must repent, for the Lord commanded Peter: "Seven times seventy times seven, forgive the one who has sinned." Saint Gregory says: If death comes suddenly to a man, whether in the sea or